Where Can I Find the ar Archiver BSD Variant

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
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I've been trying to get my hands on the source for the BSD variant of the ar archiver, but have not been able to find it anywhere. Does anyone know where I can get it?

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My FreeBSD actually uses the GNU version of ar from binutils.

$ ar V
GNU ar 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
$

so I decided to install bsd-ar just for fun

$ ./ar V
BSD ar 1.0.2 - libarchive 2.5.5
$

However, you will find the sources here:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ar-20080302.tgz

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Thank you, I have compiled it and (after some editing the source) I have a working bsd variant on Ubuntu Linux.

$ ./ar --version
BSD ar 1.0.2 - libarchive 2.6.2

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Does anyone know if it is possible to port this over to a win32 platform?

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I'm looking for the same thing if you can post your source somewhere you would save me some time, thanks
Pat